You really have your knickers in a twist today, don't you? Just because you didn't get a college education, free or otherwise? Because you've never been poor enough or sick enough to get health benefits?

@Happy Atheists:
You forget that these people are fatally obsessed with social hierarchy, and particularly with keeping those "below" them from attaining their status, They would prefer everyone, even themselves, to suffer, than to lose their relative privilege.

First it's "free not dying of easily preventable causes" next it'll be "free not shivering in a ditch slowly wasting away", then what? "Free not being kicked in the groin at random"? "Free not being dunked in raw sewage"? WHERE DOES IT EEEEND

We've had, not free, but cheap healthcare, and free college for decades. We don't have free housing nor free clothing.

The philosophy of "free" is tax-funded. As we get quite a lot for our tax-money, the tax moral is pretty high in Sweden (if you don't count the richest of the rich, of course; they'd rather hide their money in Switzerland or Lichtenstein).

If everyone contributes a little, we can all have quite a lot of "free" stuff. Like free contraceptives for teenagers, which has reduced our abortion rates significantly.